How to gunzip and untar all at once!by Jeffrey P. BighamThis tip is a rather simple but useful one. It's not a trick or anything fancy, but just something that I somehow didn't know for a long time that I wish I would have. A common thing to do in Linux/Unix/Whateverix is to download a tarball archive that has been gzipped and then extract and untar it. So you might do somethig like this:
The first command unzips it. The second command extracts the tar archive. What I didn't know is that you can combine all of this into one simple command! Just do the following:
That's all there is to it! |
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